“…Figure 6.(a) Destroyed monumental statue head fragments excavated from Tell Tayinat, Gateway VII. For scale, note the ear visible by the kneeling figure’s right knee (McEwan, 1937: Fig. 11).…”
Section: Syro-anatolian Monumental Statuary Of the Iron Agementioning
Monuments have been a staple of archaeology since the beginning of the discipline and have been used as case-studies for a diverse range of topics. In recent years, monuments have been considered particularly often in studies of social memory. By materializing memorial ambitions, however, the creation of monuments provides a venue for collective memories to be challenged. Despite their outward appearance of strength and permanence, monuments additionally render the memory of their creators vulnerable and open to contestation. In particular, the practice of counter-monumentality, or active and deliberate interventions in traditional monuments, illustrates how the erection of monuments exposes the inherent fragility of memory. Examples from the present and the past demonstrate these points: a statue of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Baltimore, Maryland, and a corpus of monumental statues from southeastern Anatolian and northern Syria during the Iron Age.
“…Figure 6.(a) Destroyed monumental statue head fragments excavated from Tell Tayinat, Gateway VII. For scale, note the ear visible by the kneeling figure’s right knee (McEwan, 1937: Fig. 11).…”
Section: Syro-anatolian Monumental Statuary Of the Iron Agementioning
Monuments have been a staple of archaeology since the beginning of the discipline and have been used as case-studies for a diverse range of topics. In recent years, monuments have been considered particularly often in studies of social memory. By materializing memorial ambitions, however, the creation of monuments provides a venue for collective memories to be challenged. Despite their outward appearance of strength and permanence, monuments additionally render the memory of their creators vulnerable and open to contestation. In particular, the practice of counter-monumentality, or active and deliberate interventions in traditional monuments, illustrates how the erection of monuments exposes the inherent fragility of memory. Examples from the present and the past demonstrate these points: a statue of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Baltimore, Maryland, and a corpus of monumental statues from southeastern Anatolian and northern Syria during the Iron Age.
“…The two regions form an awkward partnership, both in this summary, and during the Late Bronze Age. Southern Anatolia's Late Bronze profile was created, in the 1930s-1940s, by excavations at large mounds: in Cilicia at Mersin-Yumuktepe (Garstang 1953) and Tarsus (Goldman 1956), in the Amuq at Tell Atchana (Woolley 1955), and at Judeideh and Çatal Höyük for the Oriental Institute of Chicago's survey project (Haines 1971;McEwan 1937) (see figure 17.1). Among that era's other regional surveys, Seton-Williams's work in Cilicia and the Bay of İskenderun gave a comprehensive overview (Seton-Williams 1954).…”
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